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https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/1/8/18173678/trump-shutdown-voter-floridaHe’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting.
Think about that line for a second. Roll it over in your head. In essence, Minton is declaring that one aim of the Trump administration is to hurt people — the right people. Making America great again, in her mind, involves inflicting pain. [snip]
The president’s particular brand of identity politics — the racist attacks on blacks and Latinos, the Muslim ban, his cruel treatment of women — similarly depends on negative rather than positive appeals. Antoine Banks, a political psychologist at the University of Maryland, wrote a book on the connection between anger as an emotion and racial politics. When politicians gin up anger, an emotion that necessarily has a negative target, voters tend to think about the world in more racial (and racist) terms. Trump makes his voters angry, he centers that anger on hated targets, and that makes them want to take his side.
This is what makes Trumpism work. This is the dark heart of our political moment. Even people who are tremendously vulnerable themselves, like Crystal Minton, support Trump because of his capacity to inflict pain on others they detest. The cruelty, as the Atlantic’s Adam Serwer says, is the point.
I understand where you're coming from, but no. Oh, please no.
We Georgians have paid for those votes to be counted THREE TIMES: the original vote, the audit (which ended up being a hand recount of all votes,) and an additional recount (a machine re-tabulation of all votes.) Those votes have been examined and re-examined enough. Far from the taxpayers having to shoulder the cost of yet another count - and if happened, we would - there ought to be repercussions for the people who spuriously keep trying to drag those votes out of the box again and again, especially people like Perdue who are just doing it for the political campaign publicity.
'Alternative' Mueller Report
https://www.businessinsider.com/doj-may-release-alternative-version-mueller-report-court-filing-2021-12Andrew Weissmann, a longtime former federal prosecutor who served as one of special counsel Robert Mueller's top deputies during the FBI's Russia investigation, revealed the existence of the report in his book, "Where the Law Ends: Inside the Mueller Investigation."
Weissmann expressed deep dissatisfaction with the final report that was released to the public in April 2019 and accused Mueller of having let down the public. [snip]
Weissmann wrote in his book that "for posterity," he had all the members of Mueller's team "write up an internal report memorializing everything we found, our conclusions, and the limitations on the investigation, and provided it to the other team leaders as well as had it maintained in our files."
Of course, the timing of this seems conveniently tied to the publication of his book.
Sounds like the prosecutor did screw up.
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2021/12/03/oakland-county-sheriffs-blasts-prosecutor-parents/8862325002/"We don't let people turn themselves in," he said. "When a warrant is authorized by a judge, we go and get them."
On further reading, that was handled badly.
It still doesn't excuse them leaving town.
I don't know what to think about Ethan. He did a horrible thing and ended the lives of innocent classmates. He'll have to pay for that one way or another, though I hope a psych eval is involved. So many red flags beforehand were ignored or deferred, all the way up to the school meeting hours before the shooting. It's a mess. His parents didn't pull the trigger, but they did buy him a gun and left it unsecured. Any anger they may feel should be partly aimed at themselves for that.
"Crumbley's attorney says they're not on the run, they left town for their own safety
and will be back. But, they’ve been unreachable even to their own attorney. NOTE: they paid for an attorney for their case but their son, the alleged shooter used court-appointed attorney."
They left town for their own safety. Really? They left their 15 year-old son behind in jail with no family or friends for moral support, only a court-appointed attorney. They have their own attorney, but are not answering phone calls. They've grabbed a bunch of cash, ditched their car, and are now being pursued by dog teams and a large chunk of the available law officers in the area. Low ceiling is the only reason helicopters with searchlights aren't in the air.
That's some brilliant safety sense going on there.
I don't really feel any sympathy for them. Why leave your child in this situation - ever?
Any attorney with sense would have counseled them that charges might occur and they should not leave town. There's no way to argue that they are acting responsibly or in innocent ignorance. Even if they didn't know they were going to be charged, it's highly likely that they've known for hours now that they have been charged and are wanted. A phone call, one phone call could clear things up.
The prosecutor doesn't need to time the charges for the convenience of the people being charged. There's no "fair trial" involved here. The trial will not occur for a long time, if ever. The details for any additional charges re fleeing will be worked out later as well. However anyone wants to slice it, they skipped town, deserted their child, and are now evading capture. Any negative public perception is all on them -- no one else but them.
Facebook's "struggle" with disinformation
is to see how long they can get away with taking as little action as possible while raking in the cash. Deliberate and obvious lies do not fall under free speech protection - such "concerns" are a convenient shield. With the exception of some staffers rightly pointing out the issues and largely being ignored by management, there is no real struggle. That's the problem.
Excellent article - a must read.
It feeds off of the stereotype that a woman’s natural role is to be pregnant and give birth, so every and all risk should be taken by women to have a child. But in actuality, the risk of pregnancy is so substantial and it changes your physiology for the rest of your life. It’s one thing to voluntarily choose to take these risks because you want a child, but to do it to somebody against their will is downright callous. It’s unfathomable to think that adoption is a solution when you realize the risks of carrying a pregnancy to term.
The entire piece is gold: it covers everything clearly and calmly, with real world data to back up each point discussed.
Imagine having to call Dan Quayle, of all people, because you can't figure out what to do.
It boggles the mind. Give it up for Dan, who told the spineless wonder to do the right thing.
Thanks for that! George Carlin could not have said it better.
Sister Joan Chittister makes many of the same points he did, and she is absolutely right.
The above is the clip most people remember. George had lots more to say about 'the sanctity of life':
The man was amazing.
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